For ":P", see List of common emoticons but ":p" may mean printing a history expansion in Bash.[1]
For the "P#" programming language, see P Sharp.ISO basic Latin alphabet | |||
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Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd |
Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh |
Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll |
Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp |
Rr | Ss | Tt | |
Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx |
Yy | Zz |
P (named pee /ˈpiː/)[2] is the sixteenth letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
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Usage
In English and most other European languages, P is a voiceless bilabial plosive. Both initial and final Ps can be combined with many other discrete consonants in English words. A common example of assimilation is the tendency of prefixes ending in N to assume an M sound before Ps (such as in + pulse → impulse — see also List of Latin words with English derivatives
A common digraph in English is ph, which represents the voiceless labiodental fricative /f/, and can be used to transliterate Phi (φ) in loanwords from Greek. In German, the digraph pf is common, representing a labial affricate of /pf/.
Arabic speakers are usually unaccustomed to pronouncing /p/; they pronounce it as /b/.
Most English words beginning with P are of foreign origin, primarily French, Latin, Greek, and Slavic.[citation needed] In these languages, words from Proto Indo-European have p at the beginning if they come from initial *p. English cognates often start with F, since English is a Germanic language, and has undergone the Grimm's law.
History
Phoenician P |
Archaic Greek Pi |
Greek Pi |
Etruscan P |
Latin P |
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Related letters and other similar characters
The Latin letter P represents the same sound as the Greek letter Pi, but it looks like the Greek letter Rho.
- Π π : Greek letter Pi
- П п : Cyrillic letter Pe
- Ρ ρ/ϱ : Greek letter Rho
- Р р : Cyrillic letter Er
- פ ף : Hebrew letter Pe
- ℘ : script letter P, see Weierstrass p
- Ⓟ ⓟ : circled Latin letter P
- ℗ : sound recording copyright symbol
- Þ þ : Latin letter Thorn
- Ƿ ƿ : Latin letter Wynn
Computing codes
character | P | p | ||
Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P |
LATIN SMALL LETTER P |
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character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
Unicode | 80 | 0050 | 112 | 0070 |
UTF-8 | 80 | 50 | 112 | 70 |
Numeric character reference | P | P | p | p |
EBCDIC family | 215 | D7 | 151 | 97 |
ASCII 1 | 80 | 50 | 112 | 70 |
1 and all encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Other representations
See also
- Mind your Ps and Qs
- Pence or "penny," the English slang for which is p (e.g. "20p" = 20 pence)
References
- ^ Advancing in the Bash Shell
- ^ "P" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "pee," op. cit.
External links
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Letter P with diacritics
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